The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.